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Curbing a Common Cold
When you feel a cold coming on, reach for Echinacea. The dried root and leaves of the purple coneflower can help address the symptoms of the common cold, flu, sore throat, and other simple infections. It can also help you through times of low resistance by enhancing the immune system.
Available in tincture, capsule, tablet and extract form, I recommend you look for combination Echinacea products
(containing both augustifolia and purpurea species) standardized to 4 percent echinacosides. For best efficacy, Echinacea should not be used continuously for more than 10 days. Those with autoimmune diseases should use it with caution, and for the shortest period possible. Try one dropperful of tincture in water four times a day, or two capsules of freeze-dried extract four times a day.
Cranberry contains a compound that prevents bacteria from adhering to the walls of the bladder and rest of the urinary tract. This prevents the bacteria from spreading and eventually results in the halt of infection. Using cranberry on a regular basis may help prevent the formation of kidney stones.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
~Mignon McLaughlin
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